We recently released the December 2023 (#11) edition of the Effective Altruism Behavioral Science Newsletter.
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The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter
December 2023 (#11)
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The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter #11 (December 2023)
We recently released the December 2023 (#11) edition of the Effective Altruism Behavioral Science Newsletter.
You can read the newsletter in your browser or below. Previous editions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Subscribe to receive future editions of the newsletter here. Leave feedback here.
We are now preparing the March edition. Please suggest any relevant papers for inclusion as comments in this shared document.
Giving Multiplier allows you to donate to both your favorite charity and an expert-recommended, highly effective charity. All donations are boosted with matching funds!
It’s been featured in Vox, The Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch, Harvard Magazine, and podcasts such as The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos and Making Sense with Sam Harris.
For questions, please contact Matt Coleman, at matt@givingmultiplier.org.
Giving farm animals a name and a face: Eliciting animal advocacy among omnivores using the identifiable victim effect, Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye, Eliran Halali, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2024
The Role of Socially Rich Photos in Generating Favorable Donation Behavior on Charity Websites, Soffien Bataoui, Emmanuelle Boch, The Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2023
The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship, Reid B. C. Pauly, Rose McDermott, International Security, 2023
Every Little Helps: Exploring Meat and Animal Product Consumption in the Tesco 1.0 Dataset, Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye, Christopher Bryant, Katharina Hofmann, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2023
Partner Choice and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas can Increase Resource Inequality, Mirre Stallen, Luuk L. Snijder, Jörg Gross, Leon P. Hilbert, Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Nature Communications, 2023
The Relative Importance of Target and Judge Characteristics in Shaping the Moral Circle, Bastian Jaeger, Matti Wilks, Cognitive Science, 2023
Morality Beyond the WEIRD: How the Nomological Network of Morality Varies Across Cultures, Atari. M, Haidt. J, Graham. J, Koleva. S, Stevens, S. T, & Dehghani. M, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence, Ali Ladak, Steve Loughnan, and Matti Wilks, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2023
How Important is the End of Humanity? Lay People Prioritize Extinction Prevention but Not Above All Other Societal Issues, Matthew Coleman, Lucius Caviola, Joshua Lewis, and Geoffrey Goodwin, 2023
The Longtermism Beliefs Scale: Measuring Lay Beliefs for Protecting Humanity’s Longterm Future, Stylianos Syropoulos, Kyle Fiore Law, Gordon Kraft-Todd, and Liane Young, 2023
Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries, Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly Doell, Joseph Bak-Coleman, and Jay J Van Bavel, 2023
Do Disruptive Protests Help Vegan Advocacy?, Narges Kalantari, Faunalytics, 2023
Misjudgment Exacerbates Collective Action Problems, Joshua Lewis, Shalena Srna, Erin Morrissey, Matti Wilks, Christoph Winter, and Lucius Caviola, 2023
The Role of Behavioural Science in Effective Altruism, Emily Grundy
Doing Good Effectively is Unusual, Richard Y Chappell
Early Findings From the World’s Largest UBI Study, GiveDirectly
StrongMinds (4 of 9) - Psychotherapy’s impact may be shorter lived than previously estimated, Sogive
Values, Principles, and Behavior Change (with Eric Zimmer), Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Cass Sunstein On How Social Change Happens, and Why It’s So Often Abrupt & Unpredictable, 80,000 Hours
Toby Ord On the Precipice and Humanity’s Potential Futures, 80,000 Hours
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A list of EA funding opportunities by Effective Thesis
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Behavioral and Social Scientist, RAND Corporation
Postdoctoral Research Associate examining factors that shape the moral consideration we grant to others, University of Edinburgh
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Mind and Morality, University of Toronto
Manager of Research, The Inclusive Ethics Initiative (IEI),UCLA
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